An HPSG approach to Arabic nominal sentences

Abstract

This paper introduces a grammar for Arabic nominal sentences written in the formalism of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). This grammar covers simple Arabic nominal sentences, though the same approach can be extended to cover other types of Arabic nominal sentences. The formalization has been implemented using the Linguistic Knowledge Building (LKB) system.

A Prolog-based approach to Arabic syntax and semantics

“…It has also been used for information retrieval in Arabic (Gashaw et al, 2019). Some studies have used Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) for Arabic verbs (Bhuyan et al, 2008) and nominal sentences (Mutawa et al, 2008). Lately, attention has been paid to using LFG to handle Arabic grammar (Attia, 2006;Attia, 2007;Attia et al, 2010, and Arabic morphological and syntactic ambiguity (Attia, 2012).…”

Arabic nominals in HPSG: A verbal noun perspective

“…HPSG analyses for nonconcatenative morphology in general and for Semitic (Arabic, Hebrew and others) languages in particular are relatively new (Bhuyan and Ahmed, 2008b;Mutawa et al, 2008;Kihm, 2006;Bhuyan and Ahmed, 2008c;Riehemann, 2000;Bird and Klein, 1994;Bhuyan and Ahmed, 2008a;Islam et al, 2009). However, the intricate nature of Arabic morphology motivated several research projects addressing the issues (Beesley, 2001;Buckwalter, 2004;Smrž, 2007).…”

“…An HPSG formalization of Arabic nominal sentences has been presented in (Mutawa et al, 2008). The formalization covers seven types of simple Arabic nominal sentences while taking care of the agreement aspect.…”